Re: Question: Multiple pg clusters on one server can be reached with the standard port.

On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 09:04 -0500, Ron wrote:
> On 6/16/23 07:50, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 12:35 +0000, Brainmue wrote:
> > > We want to minimise dependencies between the application and the associated PostgreSQL DB.
> > > The idea is that the application gets its DB alias and this is then used as a connection string.
> > > This way we can decide in the backend on which server the PostgreSQL DB is running.
> > There is an existing solution for that: the libpq connection service file:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html
>
> Do JDBC and ODBC recognize .pg_service.conf?  I know they don't recognize
> .pgpass.

JDBC doesn't, because it does not use libpq.

ODBC can use both .pgpass and .pg_service.conf, since it uses libpq.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe